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We consider the evolution of a closed convex hypersurface under a volume preserving curvature flow. The speed is given by a power of the m-th mean curvature plus a volume preserving term, including the case of powers of the mean curvature…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-02-13 Esther Cabezas-Rivas , Carlo Sinestrari

We prove long-time existence for mean curvature flow of a smooth $n$-dimensional spacelike submanifold of an $n+m$ dimensional manifold whose metric satisfies the timelike curvature condition.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-07-23 Brendan Guilfoyle , Wilhelm Klingenberg

We study the motion of a droplet evolving by mean curvature with volume constraint and contact angle condition on a half space. We prove the existence of a global-in-time weak solution, called the flat flow. A difficulty arises when we…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Jiwoong Jang

We propose a construction of mean curvature flows by approximation for very general initial data, in the spirit of the works of Brakke and of Kim & Tonegawa based on the theory of varifolds. Given a general varifold, we construct by…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-10-02 Blanche Buet , Gian Paolo Leonardi , Simon Masnou , Abdelmouksit Sagueni

In this paper, we mainly study the mean curvature flow in K\"ahler surfaces with positive holomorphic sectional curvatures. First, we prove that if the ratio $\lambda$ of the maximum and the minimum of the holomorphic sectional curvatures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Shijin Zhang

We prove the existence of the flow by curvature of regular planar networks starting from an initial network which is non-regular. The proof relies on a monotonicity formula for expanding solutions and a local regularity result for the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-02-21 Tom Ilmanen , André Neves , Felix Schulze

We study the global existence and stability of surface diffusion flow (the normal velocity is given by the Laplacian of the mean curvature) of smooth boundaries of subsets of the $n$--dimensional flat torus. More precisely, we show that if…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Antonia Diana , Nicola Fusco , Carlo Mantegazza

This paper proves that, at the first singular time for a smoothly immersed surface moving by mean curvature flow in a n-manifold, each tangent flow is given by a smooth, branched shrinker, possibly with multiplicity. If n=3 and if the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Tom Ilmanen

We develop a global theory for complete hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ whose mean curvature is given as a prescribed function of its Gauss map. This theory extends the usual one of constant mean curvature hypersurfaces in…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-02-26 Antonio Bueno , Jose A. Galvez , Pablo Mira

This paper deals with a generalized length-preserving flow for convex curves in the plane. It is shown that the flow exists globally and deforms convex curves into circles as time tends to infinity.

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-04-03 Laiyuan Gao , Shengliang Pan

We consider a convex Euclidean hypersurface that evolves by a volume or area preserving flow with speed given by a general nonhomogeneous function of the mean curvature. For a broad class of possible speed functions, we show that any closed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2016-10-25 Maria Chiara Bertini , Carlo Sinestrari

In this article, we use the recently developed mean curvature flow with surgery for 2 convex hypersurfaces to prove several isotopy existence and finally extrinsic finiteness results (in the spirit of Cheeger's compactness theorem) for the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-08-23 Alexander Mramor

This is an expository article describing the conformalized mean curvature flow, originally introduced by Kazhdan, Solomon, and Ben-Chen. We are interested in applying mean curvature flow to surface parametrizations. We discuss our own…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ka Wai Wong

We prove long-time existence and convergence results for spacelike solutions to mean curvature flow in the pseudo-Euclidean space $\mathbb{R}^{n,m}$, which are entire or defined on bounded domains and satisfying Neumann or Dirichlet…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2021-12-16 Ben Lambert , Jason D. Lotay

Inspired by the idea of Colding-Minicozzi in [CM1], we define (mean curvature flow) entropy for submanifolds in a general ambient Riemannian manifold. In particular, this entropy is equivalent to area growth of a closed submanifold in a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-08-04 Ao Sun

In this paper, we study a mean curvature type flow with capillary boundary in the unit ball. Our flow preserves the volume of the bounded domain enclosed by the hypersurface, and monotonically decreases an energy functional $E$. We show…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Guofang Wang , Liangjun Weng

We study the convergence of an axially symmetric hypersurface evolving by volume preserving mean curvature flow. Assuming the surface is not pinching off along the axis at any time during the flow, and without any additional conditions, as…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2011-08-31 Maria Athanassenas , Sevvandi Kandanaarachchi

An existence and uniqueness result, up to fattening, for crystalline mean curvature flows with forcing and arbitrary (convex) mobilities, is proven. This is achieved by introducing a new notion of solution to the corresponding level set…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-02-13 Antonin Chambolle , Massimiliano Morini , Matteo Novaga , Marcello Ponsiglione

We prove the existence of compact surfaces with prescribed constant mean curvature in asymptotically flat and asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds. More precisely, let $(M^3,g)$ be an asymptotically flat manifold with scalar curvature $R\ge…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Liam Mazurowski , Jintian Zhu

For every closed set $K \subset \mathbb{R}^n$ and every $m \geq 2$, we construct a mean-convex ancient solution to mean curvature flow of hypersurfaces in $\mathbb{R}^{m+n}$, with respect to a smooth Riemannian metric arbitrarily…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Raphael Tsiamis